Sliding and swinging gate



(No-Model.)

T. O. CURTIS.

SLIDING AND SWINGING GATE. No. 349,925. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE CLAY CURTIS, OF CARROLL, INDIANA.

SLIDING AND SWINGING GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,925, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed August 24, 1885. Serial No. 175,217. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE CLAY CURTIS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Oarroll, in the county of Carroll and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sliding and Swinging Gates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to sliding and swinging gates; and it consists of certain details of construction and arrangement, as hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved gate. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same in open condition, the closed position of the gate being indicated in dotted lines, and the lines of the figure being interrupted by the upper ends of Figs. 3 and 4. Fig. 3 is a detached side elevation of the swinging crane or support for the gate. Fig. 4 is a detached front view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a fence-post, which carries two eyes or perforated bearings, d, at its upper and lower portions, respectively.

B designates the gate, which is composed of the horizontal bars b, connected at their ends by the vertical cross-bars b b as shown, the bars b being within the ends of slats b, for a purpose to be hereinafter described. The gate R passes through a support, D, composed of two plates, a a united at their upper and lower ends by solid portions 0 the plates a a confining the gate laterally and the solid portions c vertically above and below. The solid portions 0 are formed with tenons or reduced extensions d, which pass through the bearings d at the upper and lower parts of the post A.

O designates a hanger composed of two similarly-shaped parts, which embrace the sides of the gate, and each of which is composed of a horizontal portion, 0 and an obliquely upward extending portion, 0. The bars which compose the hanger O are bent at 0 and c, as clearly shown in the several figures of the drawings, whereby they are made to fit closely the bars or rails of the gate, and thereby prevent lateral play or Wabbling, which would occur if the parts of the crane extended outwardly from the sides of the post D in straight lines. Rollers e e e are placed as clearly shown in the drawings.

These pulleys or rollers are so disposed that two of them, 6 6 lie just below one of the bars b of the gate, and the other roller, 6, liesjust so that the gate is firmly supported on the two lower rollers, and fully guided in its movements by the upper one.

A designates the companion post to the post A, and said post is mortised to form the two parts a a, between which the ends of slats b beyond the bars b enter when the gate is closed. A brace, b, extends obliquely downward from the upper outer end of the gate, and serves not only to support the gate against sagging, but also to limit the backward sliding movement of the gate, the lower part of said gate striking against the angular portion of the piece 0 when the gate is partially opened. When closed or opened so far as the hanger O and bar b will permit, the gate is supported by a roller, 0, beneath the gate, mounted in a post, 0 in the ground, and held by a bracket, 0 secured to the upper end of said post.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the gate may be thrown partially open by a quick movement, which will be arrested by the contact of brace b with the hanger C before the gate rises off from the supporting-pulley c.

The advantage of the peculiar form of hanger O is, that when. the gate is lifted off of the rollerc and swung open upon the pivots d the rollers e 6 will properly support the gate, although it will be removed from the roller 0, and this supporting action is assured by the roller 6. The curving of the crane also permits it to turn back against the post, as shown in Fig. 2, and enables the post D to be placed nearer the post A.

. What I claim is- In a swinging and sliding gate, the combination, with a pivoted post, substantially such as shown and described, of a metallic hanger or bracket, 0, composed of two parts, each part having a horizontal arm, 0, provided with a curvature, 0 an upwardly-inclined part, 0", having a curvature, c, and the friction-rollers e 6 6 as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE CLAY CURTIS.

Vitncsses:

DANIEL SLEIGHBOUGH, SAUL T. BUTCHER. 

